It always helps to look at the Eurovision illustrated guide to know what is going on:<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/MoTQRRZ.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/MoTQRRZ.jpg</a><p>My call: Ireland will place in the top-5.
Interesting post, but what I don't understand is what data is being used here? You vaguely mention foreign relations and
song quality somewhere in the middle, but you don't elaborate on any metrics or data source?
I like it - we built an app for Eurovision where we capture the user sentiment for a particular song. We call it the "worm".
Anyway this blog article explains more: <a href="https://thelab.o2.com/2013/05/1000-thumbs-up-for-our-eurovision-commentary-app/" rel="nofollow">https://thelab.o2.com/2013/05/1000-thumbs-up-for-our-eurovis...</a>
Eurovision is biased so why watch it? An older article but still applicable <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050516/full/news050516-13.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050516/full/news050516-13.ht...</a>